Photographer Thijs Wolzak has produced a series of portraits of leading Dutch designers, taken in their studios to celebrate the Dutch Design Port exhibition held at Milk Gallery in the Meatpacking District, New York, during New York Design Week last month. More about Portraits of Dutch designers
If you think there is enough Zaha Hadid stuff on dezeen already then you'll have to bear with us as we have a few more things to get through... More about Dune Formations by Zaha Hadid
Performance is the theme of the Design Miami/Basel collectors’ fair in Switzerland next week, with designers including Front, Tom Dixon, Maarten Baas and Max Lamb creating objects live during the event. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More about Design performances at Design Miami/Basel
Designers Loop.pH present their SonUmbra light installation at the Faster Than Sound festival taking place tomorrow (Saturday) at Bentwaters Airbase in Suffolk, England. More about SonUmbra by Loop.pH
Skin is a new cosmetic surgery in Florence, Italy, designed by Michael Young and Katrin Olina. More about Skin by Michael Young and Katrin Olina
This the third of the four new pieces Zaha Hadid is launching at Design Miami/Basel in Switzerland next week. More about Crater by Zaha Hadid
Porsche Design has launched its first mobile phone: the solid aluminium P'9521. More about P’9521 mobile phone by Porsche Design
Dezeen has teamed up with the Design Museum in London (below) to create a special blog about the forthcoming exhibition, Zaha Hadid Architecture and Design. More about Dezeen launches Zaha Hadid blog
Graphic design made the front pages of British newspapers yesterday, with claims that widely ridiculed new logo designed by Wolff Olins for the 2012 Olympics in London (or at least the video that accompanies it) can trigger epilepsy attacks. More about London 2012 Olympics logo 2
Dubai Renaissance is a building designed last year by Rem Koolhaas and Fernando Donis of OMA as an entry for a competition for iconic central feature at Business Bay in Dubai. OMA lost the competition to Zaha Hadid's Dancing Towers project, but now OMA is negotiating to build the structure at another site in the Emirate. More about Dubai Renaissance by OMA
Here is the second of the new products Zaha Hadid is launching at Design Miami/Basel next week: a table for Vitra called Mesa. More about Mesa by Zaha Hadid
This is shaping up to be retro-minimalism week on dezeen: plusminuszero, the Japanese home goods brand created by Naoto Fukasawa, has launched a new collection of products (via dezain). More about New plusminuszero collection
Zaha's having a busy year: this is the first of four new works the architect is presenting at the Design Miami/Basel collectors' fair in Switzerland next week. More about Belu by Zaha Hadid
Italian electronics brand Olivetti has launched new printers designed by Jasper Morrison, Alberto Meda and James Irvine, and IDEO. More about Morrison, Meda, Irvine and IDEO for Olivetti
Jasper Morrison has designed a mobile phone for Samsung, featuring phone functions on one side and camera functions on the other (via dezain). More about Jasper Morrison for Samsung
Julie Mathias and Wolfgang Kaeppner of WokMedia will present new versions of their Made in China series of furniture at Design Miami/Basel next week. More about Made in China by WokMedia
Bye bye Dubai: here are some photos we took at the International Design Forum, which ended last Tuesday. More about International Design Forum photos
The organisers of the 2012 Olympic Games in London have unveiled their new logo, created by Wolff Olins. More about London 2012 Olympics logo by Wolff Olins
Property developer Urban Splash has launched an architectural competition for 26 canal-side homes at the New Islington regeneration site in Manchester, England. More about Tutti Frutti house design competition
Hotel Ballymun is a project that temporarily turned a condemned tower block in Ballymun, Ireland, into a hotel as part of a cultural project headed by artist Seamus Nolan. More about Hotel Ballymun
